After September 11, 2001, U.S. officials authorized the cruel treatment and torture of prisoners held in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo, and the CIA's secret prisons overseas.

This database documents the U.S. government's official experiment with torture. At present, the database contains well over 100,000 pages of government documents obtained primarily through Freedom of Information Act litigation and requests filed by the ACLU, and through litigation of Salim v. Mitchell, a lawsuit brought by the ACLU on behalf of the survivors and the family of a dead victim of the CIA torture program. To learn more about the database, please read the About and Search Help pages. If you're a developer, you can also access this data through our API.

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Oct. 20, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3365
This email from an FBI agent on a tour of duty at Guantanamo Bay discusses announcement from the Pentagon that four (4) detainees were being repatriated to their respected countries (three Afghans and one Tajik). Memo states that upon news, ...
May 18, 2005
Email
Michael E. Dunlavey
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3366
Entire contents redacted.
Sept. 30, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3367
An FBI email concerning an update. It mentions informing the recipient of the results of a meeting "tomorrow." Contents redacted.
Apr. 10, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3368
First page of an FBI Memo entitled " GTMO-INTEL GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA OO:MIAMI MAJOR CASE 188".
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Frankie Battle | Stephen R. Wiley
Marion E. Bowman | Hector M. Pesquera | C. Frank Figliuzzi
Raymond Mey, Stephen R. Wiley, Frankie Battle, Marion E. Bowman, Hector M. Pesquera, C. Frank Figliuzzi
May 23, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3369
This memo also includes a table and emails. The general synopsis of the memo is it provides the statement of an SA's observations while at Abu Graib Prison. In the memo, SA states that during his time at the "Abu Graib Prison his role was to only ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Chart/List, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Stephen R. Wiley, Frankie Battle, Marion E. Bowman, Hector M. Pesquera, C. Frank Figliuzzi, Raymond Mey, Monte C. Strait, Michael J. Folmar, Barbara Wells, Russell D. Robinson, Paula J. Wendell , Amy Jo Lyons, Randall D. Parsons, Steven C. McCraw, Valerie E. Caproni, Cassandra M. Chandler, Eleni P. Kalisch, Kenneth L. Wainstein, Robert S. Mueller, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Thomas J. Harrington, M. Chris Briese
July 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3370
Fax cover letter to Adrien Silas from [redacted] regarding Valerie Caproni's July 14, 2004 hearing before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Some names are illegible.
May 18, 2005
Letter
Adrien Silas
Adrien Silas, Valerie E. Caproni, Jack L. Goldsmith, Steven G. Bradbury, Daniel B. Levin, Rachel Brand
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3371

Emails discussing the final version of Valerie E. Caproni's testimony/statement, which includes OLP and Crim comments. Emails reference the attachment of the statement/testimony.

May 18, 2005
Email
Adrien Silas
Valerie E. Caproni, Adrien Silas, Genna Burnhardt, Crystal Roberts, Faith Burton, Peter B. Owen, Steven G. Bradbury, Patrick Philbin
May 06, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3372
Memo discusses the FBI's objections and concerns regarding the military's interrogation tactics in Afghanistan, Guantanamo and Iraq. The memo states that in late 2002 and continuing into mid-2003, the Behavioral Analysis Unit raised concerns ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller, Christopher A. Wray
SERE, Physical assault, General
Mar. 04, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3373
Email from a FBI Official [redacted] with situation reports attached. The emails appear to be between Gregory A. Miller, US Attorney, Northern District of Florida and a SSA stationed in Camp Ashraf, Iraq.
May 18, 2005
Email
Gregory A. Miller
Gregory A. Miller
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3374
Entire contents redacted. Only visible language is a header that reads " Classification Draft," also at the top it reads "David Nahmias- AG Letter.wpd"
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo
David E. Nahmias